--- title: A bank says "outstanding balance" for money you still owe, and "deli… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics description: A bank says "outstanding balance" for money you still owe, and "delinquent account" for a debt not paid on time. Who acts: bank, you. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: money and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/) / 1 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 1 A bank says "outstanding balance" for money you still owe, and "delinquent account" for a debt not paid on time. **Who acts:** bank, you · **What happens:** say, owe, not pay · **To what, where:** outstanding balance, money, debt · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bank, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:1 # text = A bank says "outstanding balance" for money you still owe, and "delinquent account" for a debt not paid on time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 020-debt-and-jobs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 outstanding outstanding ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 still still ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 owe owe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 delinquent delinquent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a bank | outstanding balance and delinquent account for a debt | | | | for money | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent balance=Topic | | 2 | **owe** | present | you | money *not said here* | | | still | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 3 | **not** **pay** | participle | | a debt *not said here* | | | time | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/)